Editing Lords Temporal (section)

== History ==

Membership in the Lords Temporal was once an entitlement of all hereditary peers, other than those in the [[peerage of Ireland]]. Under the [[House of Lords Act 1999]], the right to membership was restricted to [[List of excepted hereditary peers|92 hereditary peers]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-information-office/hoflbpmembership.pdf|title=House of Lords briefing paper on Membership:Types of Member, Routes to membership, Parties & groups|access-date=1 July 2011|publisher=Parliament of the United Kingdom}}</ref> 

Further [[reform of the House of Lords]] is a perennially-discussed issue in [[Politics of the United Kingdom|British politics]]. However, no additional legislation on this issue has passed the [[House of Commons]] since 1999. The [[Wakeham Commission]], which debated the issue of lords' reform under then Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]], proposed making some of the Lords Temporal elected positions.<ref name="wake">[https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/266063/exec_sum.pdf Executive Summary of the Wakeham Report]</ref> This plan, which was widely criticised, failed to advance in the House of Commons.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Lords report fails to satisfy | work = BBC | access-date = 23 March 2013 | date = 20 January 2000 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/611889.stm }}</ref> Additional proposals were made under the coalition government of Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] to reduce the size of the House of Lords to 450, directly elect at least some of the Lords Temporal, and allow members of the House of Commons to run for election as Lords Temporal. None of these proposals passed.<ref>{{cite news |last=Grice |first=Andrew |date=11 July 2012 |title=Coalition shaken as Cameron ducks out of vote on Lords
 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coalition-shaken-as-cameron-ducks-out-of-vote-on-lords-7932344.html |work=The Independent |location=Online |access-date=25 September 2019}}</ref>